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📍 Concord, CA 🚨 Now hiring 🥗 GF · DF · gourmet
Methodology · the open kitchen

We cook 16–20k gourmet meals a week. Join the crew.

Methodology is chef-driven meal delivery. In our Concord, California kitchen we turn written recipes into thousands of nourishing, high-protein, gluten-free & dairy-free meals every week — and we're hiring the next people who make each one right. See our food at gomethodology.com.

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🍳 Real culinary reps 🌅 Early & part-time shifts 🍱 A meal every shift 💵 Pay posted up front

🧑‍🍳Pick your lane

Six real, open roles. Pay is posted up front on every one (California SB 1162). Tap Apply and we'll pre-fill an email to our recruiting team — just tell us how you found us.

📍 Based in Concord, CA — 30 min from Oakland.

🍳 Kitchen Production Associate
$21–$24/hr · SB 1162
On-site Concord · early-morning · part- or full-time

Portion, prep, and cook to written spec — hundreds of meals a week, with the precision that makes every jar and bento accurate.

  • Portion, prep & cook to written spec — precision over flash
  • Weigh, label & pack every item; keep your station food-safe
  • Flag problems the moment you see them — we stop the line
Apply → Equal-opportunity employer
🚗 Delivery Driver
$20.40/hr + $0.45/mi · eff. ≈$29–37/hr · SB 1162
Concord · AM routes Mon–Fri · weekend standby pool

The last, most personal step. Run AM routes from our Concord kitchen with photo proof at every drop and proactive ETA texts. Know a driver? $50 referral bonus when they're hired.

  • Verify counts at handoff; photo proof at every drop
  • Carry from the bottom, keep boxes upright, check labels
  • Collect return packaging for our closed-loop supply chain
Apply → Equal-opportunity employer
📦 Packout & Portioning Crew
$19–$22/hr · SB 1162
On-site Concord · morning shifts · part-time

Where finished components become finished orders. Portion to exact weights, label accurately, stage orders for the routes.

  • Portion meals to exact weights & counts
  • Label every item — allergens matter, and so do lives
  • Seal, sort & stage orders; start each day with the allergen read-aloud
Apply → A meal every shift · EOE
🖥️ IT / Fleet Operations Apprentice
$20–$26/hr · SB 1162
Concord (on-site 1st month, then hybrid) · 10–20 hrs/wk

A paid apprenticeship on our local-first infrastructure. Learn a modern self-hosted stack by doing it — every task ends in a written proof.

  • Run backup-and-restore drills — we rehearse restores, not just backups
  • Monitor services and fix what you watch; write runbook entries
  • Ship one small automation a month, ending with a proof artifact
Apply → CS/IT students welcome · EOE
📊 Finance Operations Assistant
$20–$26/hr · SB 1162
Remote-ok · must overlap US time zones · 8–16 hrs/wk

Support the weekly controller close inside a modern, AI-assisted process. One rule: every number ties, or it's flagged — never guessed.

  • Support the weekly close: receipt matching & category review
  • Reconcile against our coded transaction pipeline
  • Flag what doesn't tie — provenance on every figure
Apply → Accounting students · EOE
📝 GF / DF Recipe Development Specialist
Competitive · pay range shared in our first conversation
Remote · ~90% at a computer, 10% in the kitchen · with Julie Nguyen & Stephen Liu

Own the recipes behind our weekly rotating menu — design nourishing, gourmet GF/DF meals with perfect macros that the kitchen can execute.

  • Design weekly menus that hit macro targets and never use gluten, dairy, or seed oils
  • Scale recipes precisely so any chef can replicate them exactly
  • Ship a new full recipe every two weeks; correct existing recipes from daily chef feedback
Apply → Fine-dining R&D · EOE

🎓Made for students

We built these lanes around your schedule, not ours. Early-morning and part-time shifts, real skills you can put on a resume, and a hot meal every time you work.

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Shifts that end before classEarly-morning and morning packout shifts — a great fit for a full course load.
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A meal every shiftYou take home real Methodology food on every on-site shift.
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Real skills, not busyworkCulinary, logistics & cold chain, IT infrastructure, or controller-grade finance — learned by doing.
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A delegation ladderStart on a station, learn how it works, then train the next person who joins. Every step is real work, not busywork.

Bay Area campuses we love hiring from:

CCSF Laney Chabot De Anza SJCC Mission DVC

Kitchen Production Associate: California Food Handler Card within 30 days of hire — we point you to the $10 online course.

🥷 While you're here — beat our chef's high score

Every Methodology meal is dairy-free. Slice the dairy out of the air — spare the good stuff. It's the portioner's eye, as a game.
Score 0 Best 0 ❤️❤️❤️

🥷 Dairy-Free Ninja

Swipe to slice 🥛 🧀 🧈 🍦 — but don't cut the safe food 🥑 🍅 🥦 🍗. Reach 15 for a chef's eye.

Slice → 🥛 🧀 🧈 🍦 🍨 dairy Spare → 🥑 🍅 🥦 🍗 🫐 safe food Miss dairy · or cut safe food = strike

✉️Apply — takes a minute

Tap your role. We'll open a Gmail draft to recruiting@gomethodology.com with the subject pre-filled — just add a line about how you found us (a campus flier, a friend, a QR code) and hit send. No account, no resume black hole.

…or email us directly: recruiting@gomethodology.com

Not sure which lane? Email us anyway and tell us what you're great at. Referral bonus of $50 for every driver you refer who gets hired.